Jack be Nimble

Jack Be Nimble DVD

Jack Be Nimble - 1993

Essential Productions Ltd. - 93 min.
DVD UPC # 014381559828

Cast: Alex Arquette, Sarah Smuts-Kennedy,Bruno Lawrence, Tony Barry, Elizabeth Hawthorne.
Writer: Garth Maxwell; Photography: Donald Duncan, Chris Neal, Grant Major; Original Music: Chris Neal; Special Effects: Kevin Chisnall; Editor: John Gilbert; Director: Garth Maxwell.

Two children are abandoned by their mentally ill mother. Doris goes to a good home, but she is psychic and the other children find her strange. Jack is adopted by an impossibly cruel farming family. Doris uses her powers to search for Jack, who has invented a machine with which he can hypnotise people and has induced his adoptive parents to commit suicide. Doris becomes pregnant to Terry, her boyfriend, who is also psychic. Doris and Jack go on a search for their natural parents - with tragic results.

Censor Rating: M -- Review Rating: B-

AVAILABILITY OF VHS OR DVD COPIES

New R0 PAL DVD copies can be purchased from NZ sources for $20nz. Expect to pay about $10us for new NTSC VHS copy, about 20# for new PAL VHS copy. Now that the R1 DVD is OOP, new copies are selling for at least $30us. It is presented 1.33:1 with dolby digital 3.1 surround sound. There are no extras.

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SOUNDTRACK ON AUDIO CD

There are no known soundtrack CDs of this title.

Link to soundtrack sample download

REVIEWS

Moria Review

MRQE Reviews (4 articles)

Mondo Digital Review

All Movie Guide Review

"How should we react to this grisly yarn? A shoulder shrug is one answer, for the talented young writer and director changes moods so many times, from horror comedy to eerie fairytale, from arty artifact to commercial bloodbath. Yet if the pieces never bind together, Maxwell still gives us much to ponder (family bonds, the beast within) and builds his jigsaw with visual flourishes that stop just short of the show- off stunts of so many first films" - (Geoff Brown, The Times, February 3, 1994)

OFFLINE REVIEW SOURCES

Dominion, Feb.28, 1994
Guardian weekly, v.150no.7(Feb.13 1994)
Listener, v.141no.2799(No0v.27 1993)
Metro, no.150(Dec.1993)
Brian McDonnell North & South Review (December 1993)
Quote, unquote, no.6(Nov.1993)
Sight and sound, v.4.issue2(Feb.1994)

TRAILER AND OTHER TITLE RELATED LINKS

Official Trailer

Information at IMDB

AWARDS

1993 - Fantasporto - Best Actress: Sarah Smuts-Kennedy; Best Screenplay.

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